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Juqiang Chen
I am a Doctor of Philosophy candidate with the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development at Western Sydney University, starting in 2017 with Prof. Catherine Best, and Dr. Mark Antoniou. My research interest and expertise are in second language speech perception/production.
In addition to my PhD project, I also do some work on some endangered aboriginal Australia Languages, Arabana and Kaytetye, with Mark Harvey, Robert Mailhammer, and Micheal Proctor.
Apart from speech-related studies, I am also keen on exploring social and stylistic language variations with methods from corpus linguistics, natural language process and text mining. I have always been enthusiastic about using coprus to document and explore patterns of language use.
Education
PhD. Candidate
The MARCS Institute
Western Sydney University
2021 - 2017
- Thesis: Cognitive Factors in Perception and Imitation of Thai Tones by Mandarin versus Vietnamese Speakers
M.A., English Linguistics
School of Foreign Studies
Nanjing University
2017 - 2014
B.A., English Linguistics and Literature
School of Foreign Studies
Nantong Univeristy
2013 - 2009
Peer Reviewed Publications
Towards a Socio-Cultural Account of Literary Canon’s Retranslation and Reinterpretation: The Case of The Journey to the West
Critical Arts
N/A
2020
- Wang, F. (Robin)., Humble, P., & Chen, J.
Cognitive Factors in Thai-Naive Mandarin Speakers’ Imitation of Thai Lexical Tones.
Proc. Interspeech 2019, 2653-2657.
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2019
- Chen, J., Best, C. T., & Antoniou, M.
Cognitive factors in perception of Thai tones by naive Mandarin listeners.
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1684-1688).
N/A
2019
- Chen, J., Best, C. T., Antoniou, M., & Kasisopa, B.
Rhotic contrasts in Arabana
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1278-1282).
N/A
2019
- Carne, M., Chen, J., Luk, E., Strangways, S., Stockigt, C., Maihammer, R., & Harvey, M.
Computational perception of information foci produced by Chinese English learners and American English speakers.
Proceedings of APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference 2019
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2019
- Chen, J., & He, X.
Cross-language categorisation of monosyllabic Thai tones by Mandarin and Vietnamese speakers: L1 phonological and phonetic influences.
Proceedings of the 17th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 168-172).
N/A
2018
- Chen, J., Best, C. T., Antoniou, M., & Kasisopa, B.
Research Experience
Research Assistant
Arabana Project
Western Sydney University
2019
- Supervisors: Mark Harvey, Robert Mailhammer
- Acoustic analysis
- Data modelling
Research Assistant
Arabana & Kaytetye Project
University of Newcastle
2018
- Supervisors: Mark Harvey, Robert Mailhammer
- Acoustic analysis
- Data modelling
Programming skills
- R
- Praat
- Python
- Eprime
Teaching Experience
I am passionate about teaching statistical modelling and data science.
Language skills
- Chinese (Native)
- English (Proficient, IELTS:8, TOEFL: 112)
- French
Digital Humanity Summer Institute Downunder
University of Newcastle
Australia
2019
- Introduction to data wrangling with R
- Introduction to exploratory data analysis with R
IELTS
Nanjing Univerisity
China
2016 - 2015
- English listening course (College level)
Honours & Awards
CSC-WSU Joint Scholarship
China Scholarship Council, WSU
N/A
2021 - 2017
National Academic Scholarship for Graduate Students
Ministry of Education, P.R.C
N/A
2017 - 2014
Academic Excellence Scholarship
Nanjing University
N/A
2016
First-class Student Scholarship (twice times)
Nantong University
N/A
2012 - 2010
National Student Encouragement Scholarship
Department of Education, Jiangsu
N/A
2012 - 2011
National Student Scholarship
Ministry of Education, P.R.C
N/A
2010
Professional Membership
Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA)
Full member
N/A
2020 - 2019
International Speech Communication Association
Full member
N/A
2020 - 2019
Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association
Student member
N/A
2020 - 2017
Acoustic Society of America
Student member
N/A
2020 - 2018
Australian Linguistic Society
Student member
N/A
2019 - 2017
Service
Speech and language program meeting coordinator
N/A
N/A
2019
MARCS Monday Meeting coordinator
N/A
N/A
2018